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Posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 10:51:59
I discovered if you tape your eyebrows up in a high position (like they are when you are happily surprised,) it is really hard to get angry. Try it.
Posted by Phillipa on July 20, 2006, at 12:11:29
In reply to New discovery, posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 10:51:59
Curtm, what kind of tape do you recommend? Plastic surgery is too expensive. Love Phillipa scotch tape or masking tape or even duct tape?
Posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 12:20:37
In reply to Re: New discovery » curtm, posted by Phillipa on July 20, 2006, at 12:11:29
Packing tape. Clear. You can still see the facial features that way.
Posted by Adrift on July 20, 2006, at 12:30:37
In reply to Re: New discovery » Phillipa, posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 12:20:37
Try botox
Posted by Meri-Tuuli on July 20, 2006, at 15:46:40
In reply to New discovery, posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 10:51:59
How on earth did you discover that? You decide to tape your eyebrows up, then a colleage/spouse/kid/etc made you angry...and you found you couldn't be?
Hehehehe
Posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 16:39:09
In reply to Re: New discovery, posted by Meri-Tuuli on July 20, 2006, at 15:46:40
No I have an interesting concept. Facial features are drastically affected by emotions. So are emotions affected by facial features??
Make an angry face- a big one. Think angry. C'mon try it. Feel any difference? Maybe.
Now just hold your eyebrows up and smile. Try to feel angry again. Feel angry? No. Feel ridiculous? Maybe.
I think the mind is trained to change chemicals based on facial features because of the strong relationship between the two.
Moral of the story: SMILE :)
Posted by Kath on July 20, 2006, at 16:55:21
In reply to Re: New discovery » Meri-Tuuli, posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 16:39:09
Jeez Curt - you're right! I am doing the eyebrow thing without the tape at the moment because I'm too lazy to get up from the computer.
But you're right. I tried to say "I am SO angry at you" angrily. I can do it, but I don't FEEL angry even if I try to be angry (which I could usually do - I think I'd be a good actress - not at all humble, but whatever LOL)
Kath
> No I have an interesting concept. Facial features are drastically affected by emotions. So are emotions affected by facial features??
>
> Make an angry face- a big one. Think angry. C'mon try it. Feel any difference? Maybe.
>
> Now just hold your eyebrows up and smile. Try to feel angry again. Feel angry? No. Feel ridiculous? Maybe.
>
> I think the mind is trained to change chemicals based on facial features because of the strong relationship between the two.
>
> Moral of the story: SMILE :)
Posted by llrrrpp on July 20, 2006, at 16:59:26
In reply to Re: New discovery » Meri-Tuuli, posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 16:39:09
> No I have an interesting concept. Facial features are drastically affected by emotions. So are emotions affected by facial features??
You betcha! Paul Ekman @ Stanford U. has been studying this stuff his entire career. if you prevent the body from expressing an emotion (i.e. if you take a beta blocker that prevents a racing heart) you may not experience fear with the same intensity. If you hold a pencil clenched between your teeth, and hear a joke, you will later recall it as being funnier than people who held the pencil as one would hold a drinking straw. That's because the clenching engages the "smiling" muscles more than the other pencil hold does.
If I try your packing tape thing, I might rip off all my eyebrow hairs. It could look pretty bad, now that I think about it. but at least I wouldn't get too angry at you, or at myself.
(neutral faced, currently. trying to avoid a stressful crowd situation at the airport! yikes!)
-ll
Posted by cloudydaze on July 20, 2006, at 19:38:01
In reply to New discovery, posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 10:51:59
LOL
That was a hilarious visual picture, thanks!
Actually there is a lot of truth to the concept that facial features influence emotions.
Smiling can be beneficial for your emotions, AND it can also influence others' emotions as well.
> I discovered if you tape your eyebrows up in a high position (like they are when you are happily surprised,) it is really hard to get angry. Try it.
Posted by corafree on July 21, 2006, at 2:56:40
In reply to Re: New discovery » Meri-Tuuli, posted by curtm on July 20, 2006, at 16:39:09
That IS really hard! You can't make your face come back down?!
Do you sit in front of a mirror making faces and sticking packaging tape on yourself a lot?
I wanna' be on your meds!!!
cf
Posted by curtm on July 21, 2006, at 8:40:32
In reply to Re: New discovery » curtm, posted by corafree on July 21, 2006, at 2:56:40
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